Course Reserve Information for Faculty

Adding or Removing Materials on Reserve

Supplemental materials for courses may be placed on course reserve for the semester when the course is offered. Materials placed on reserve in the libraries may include books, videos/DVDs, and physical objects and may be items from the Libraries’ collection or personal copies belonging to the instructor. Online materials such as e-books, links to articles, streaming videos, and scanned physical items may also be placed on electronic reserve through Canvas. Any items placed on electronic reserve must meet FSU Libraries’ Policies & Practices, which follow the conditions of copyright law.

Placing Materials on Reserve

Requests for items to be placed on course reserve should be submitted using the online form.

Any items that need to be on reserve for the first week of the semester should be submitted at least 3 weeks prior to the beginning of the semester.

Reserves requests submitted once the semester has begun will be processed within 5 business days.

Instructors may request that the Libraries pick up their personal items to place on course reserve using the Library Express Delivery Service (LED)

Removing Reserves Materials

To remove materials from reserve or to pick up personal materials on reserve, please contact the Reserves Office in advance by email: Lib-Reserves@fsu.edu

Policies and Practices

Fair Use

When placing items on electronic reserve, Florida State University Libraries follow the United States Copyright Act of 1976. Specifically, the Copyright Act addresses four factors in Section 107 which determine Fair Use of copyrighted materials.

These factors are:

Purpose- The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational use;

Nature- The nature of the copyrighted work;

Amount- The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole;

Effect- The effect of the use upon the potential market for and value of the copyrighted work

Streaming Videos

Before submitting a request for streaming video, please review the following guide to using the Libraries' streaming video collections and other models for providing streaming access in your course: https://guides.lib.fsu.edu/streamingmedia/models

In cases where streaming access is not available through the Libraries' licensed collections, please note that adequate educational licensing may not be available for the content in question. When such options do exist, licensing costs can be high and staff time involved with licensing/making titles available can be considerable. To qualify for consideration, streaming video purchase requests at Florida State University Libraries must meet certain criteria. Please contact your subject librarian for further information: https://www.lib.fsu.edu/scholars-commons/subject-specialists

Practices

Materials placed on Reserve must be for the educational use of students.

A copyright notice will be displayed with each item in the online course reserve system.

Citations will be listed for each item placed in the online course reserve system.

Access is limited to students enrolled in class through the course reserve system in Canvas.

Materials to be copied or scanned for electronic reserve will be in legal possession by the library, instructor, or other designated unit of the university.

Copies made of any reserve materials must be for private study, personal research, or education of the students in the designated course.reserves. Copyright permissions will be obtained as needed.

Both physical and electronic items will be taken down from the reserves shelf and Canvas at the end of a course.

Items that Can Be Place on Course Reserve:

Books in their original format that are legally owned by the FSU Libraries or a faculty member

Media in its original format that is legally owned by the FSU Libraries or a faculty member

Works or sections of works in the public domain

Works or sections of works produced by the U.S. government

Portions of books, journal articles, and other print resources that fall within "fair use"

Materials created by the instructor for the course Copyrighted materials for which the instructor has obtained permission and supplied written documentation of that permission

FSU Libraries reserve the right to refuse to place materials on reserve if they deem that those materials exceed fair use and would constitute copyright infringement.

Location of Reserve Items

All physical reserves, such as textbooks, DVDs, microfilm, and more are located behind the circulation desk at their respective libraries.

Electronic Reserves or "e-reserves", such as digital copies of journal articles, scanned portions of monographs, and films for streaming are uploaded to the course's Canvas page in a folder tiled "e-reserves."